Niriides Beach

This is a clean hotel, rooms cleaned & towels changed Daily. Food was good with a daily change of cuisines & good variety & we always got a seat. The location is good for bars, restaurants and shops and touring the Island. However I do not feel this deserves the stars it has - It lacks facilities, advertising as a family hotel yet the play area and children's pool are very basic and not very well kept. It cost 6euro to play Tennis for an hour despite being an All Inclusive hotel. The bar closed at 2300hours to All Inclusive with the final hour till midnight charging for drinks. The pool area was very cramped with sunbeds and the only area in the hotel to Lounge.

The good bits: Lovely pool, clean and tidy garden area Air hockey/table tennis Spotlessly clean, daily maid service, 5 min walk to shops, bars and restaurants - Island Breeze does the best cocktails. 10 mins walk to gorgeous little beach and super beach bar - fab shrimp salad. Regular buses to Faliraki and Rhodes only 4 euros Not so good bits: Very strict restaurant times Air con control taken out of room as ‘out of season’ Very noisy fridge in room No kettle in room No refreshments for late check in - we arrived at midnight No in between meal snacks offered at all - surprising for ‘all inclusive’ Signs everywhere encouraging you to buy alternative drinks All inclusive drinks were horrible - very weak wine and beer and rubbish cocktails Poor value for money and wouldn’t stay here again

On the surface this hotel looks fine, upon arrival all of the buildings and facilities seem to match up to expectations from pictures, but that's about where it ended for us. Luckily we had booked a superior room, giving us a pool view, however, the standard rooms look to be either basically underground or overlooking wasteland. The location of the hotel is only really good if you plan to stay local or you have a car rented for your stay (be warned there are only about 9 parking spaces so you may have to leave your car on the road) but there is a small strip nearby with some shops, restaurants and bars, also the beach is only 10 mins walk. The all inclusive food was diabolical(see attached photo of "Lasagne", they served almost the exact same food every day for both lunch and dinner, except on a Sunday where they had "Greek Night" which comprised of adding Gyros & Soulvaki to their normal menu. We opted to just eat out for most meals (breakfast was okay). All inclusive drinks were a complete waste of time if you wanted something alcoholic, I have never experienced such watered down spirits in all my life, it seemed although you could probably drink 100 drinks and still be completely sober. The staff appeared very miserable and unapproachable and not once during the entire week did anyone actually try to interact with us. This also goes from the manager, who seemed to randomly enforce a "1 alcoholic drink at a time" per person rule for us halfway through the holiday, despite others not having to adhere to this. (As mentioned the drinks were that week that there was no chance of anyone becoming drunk and disorderly anyway, we just wanted a couple to take up to our balcony at night due to the absenceof any other entertainment in the evening). Be advised, if you are young and especially British, this is probably not the place for you, everyone else at the Hotel during our stay were either German or Polish and seemed to look down at us all of the time despite us keeping ourselves to ourselves, which created a really tense, awkward atmosphere. The final nail in the coffin came on our second to last day where we discovered that the controls for our air-con had been taken away due to the hotel having a policy of only allowing it between the months of May-October despite it still being 30°c on the day they turned it off. In summary, not a 4-star experience at all, the place is generally clean and the pool is nice but that's about all there is good to say.